9.9.13

The above
is what can be found on a building, close to « Les Halles ». It
indicates that the present building stands on the premises where Molière was
born in 1620. Actually, he was born in 1622 … and not here!What obviously happened
is that a tripe-seller once occupied the ground floor and someone made him
believe that this was the place Molière was born. Of course it would make nice
publicity and the tripe-seller invested in this nice piece of art to decorate
the building.

Actually,
Molière was born not far from here, in the crossing of Rue Sauval and Rue St.
Honoré. Again, the actual building is the result of a reconstruction in the very
beginning of the 19th century, but here you can find a more official
plate on the front of present building and you can read that he was born here
January 15, 1622. His father held a boutique selling tapestry, furniture... on the
ground floor. Molière was baptized in the fairly nearby St. Eustache church.

In a
previous post I talked about where he died in 1673…. and I also mentioned him in
a post about Pézenas in the south of France where he performed.

Here is a comparison
of Paris today and what it looked like in the first half of the 18th
century, when his birth house was still there. We can see where the correct and the false birth places were situated.

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